It is not religions by itself, which I find irrational
anyway, but the religious intolerance of others that they deem to be different
from them because of their sexuality, their opposing religion, their atheism or
agnostic beliefs. Of course by no choice of mine I was proclaimed a Catholic as
a child and any get out clause for me has been shut down by this church in recent
times. This enables them to claim for their statistics that I am one of over
1.2 billion Catholic’s in the world. Of course I find this intolerable in a
non-caring tolerable kind of way. Still, there has been progress since the
inquisitions of days gone by but they have not got there yet. Normally it is
the people that they claim to serve but who are really serving them that ends
up bending their ear a bit to bring them into the present, and if they were not
then the old days would be back with a vengeance because unchallenged power
will always corrupt. Their obsession with sex is, as usual, always at the
forefront of how they have always thought and acted on those impulses.
The father of all Fr Trendy’s, Pope Francis, is now trying
to show a different face to how his tribe sees gay people with an eye to
keeping the numbers up as well from gay people’s children. Much ado has also been
said about Francis’s comment that ‘who is he to judge a gay man who is
searching for God’ though I feel he may be talking only about the Catholic
version. On that he is right but does it matter? His cannon law book considers
the sexual acts of gays to be morally evil which pretty much calls them evil as
well, and should not matter as cannon law has as much weight in civil law as a
water pistol against a jihadist trying to cleave your head from your shoulders
because he thought you were just an infidel, and never mind that you might be a
gay one too; with that wisdom he might cut off more than the head. The Islamic
versions that exist in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen one way or the other
will give death as the only cure for gay people. Closer to home, as in Ireland,
gays are safe from those excesses, but it seems there is no cure anyway or is
there for the Catholic Church certainly thinks there is one
But it does matter what religions think of gays if nothing
else because of the influence of the messages that they send out to their
faithful, and you cannot have it both ways. Here in Ireland, which is 90% plus
Catholic, on the one hand the Church decries gay people as evil, depraved, and
unless they are wholly celibate, they are all damned to hell as well; and on
the other they say it is wrong that they are the objects of violent malice in
speech and action. This misnomer of speech itself might have just gone over
their heads, and the next attack on a gay person by some cross wielding serial
mass-goer with the IQ of a goldfish might be prevented by a more softer message
from Pope Francis that sex between consenting adults is really just like food
that depends on what you fancy with different strokes for different folks kinda thing best left to themselves.
Barry Clifford
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